De ministerraad heeft ingestemd met de Woningwet BES. Dit wetsvoorstel moet zorgen voor de bouw van meer betaalbare sociale huurwoningen op de BES-eilanden (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius en Saba) door woningstichtingen op de eilanden betere toegang te geven tot financiering. Het wetsvoorstel is afgelopen zomer in internetconsultatie geweest en wordt nu voor advies aan de Raad van State voorgelegd. Daarna volgt de behandeling in de Tweede en Eerste Kamer.
A message board on the Russo brothers’ website briefly hosted Marvel fans’ best guesses about the direction their forthcoming film will take. Here are the wildest
With its enigmatic promo run for Avengers: Doomsday, Marvel has perfected the trailer that reveals precisely nothing. Teasers have consisted of portentous glances, mood lighting, and characters standing very still. Dialogue is pre-scrubbed of context. Music swells with the confidence that something enormous is happening just out of frame. Plot, meanwhile, has been placed in witness protection. The studio is clearly well aware that giving away even a smidgen of detail this early on – the film isn’t due for release until December – would result in fans cracking the code long before any bums actually go on seats.
After all, Marvel has been here before. Avengers: Infinity War’s trailers laid out just enough narrative scaffolding for the internet to calmly conclude, months in advance, that Thanos was going to win and leave the universe in binary tatters. And it happened again with Avengers: Endgame, a film whose storyline was deduced from toy leaks, casting announcements and the radical insight that actors rarely sign multi-picture deals only for their characters to die permanently.
Continue reading...Recreate a centuries-old technique from the far east with moss, soil, twine, bonsai compost – and a little patience
I’ve lived in the same corner of London for the best part of 15 years, and increasingly the pavements and parks are layered like onion skins, holding memories of my youth that I don’t realise are there until I return. This week I took my newborn daughter to Peckham in south-east London, to meet a friend in a cafe I’d never heard of. When I turned up, I realised it used to be a regular haunt of mine, and suddenly I was both a tired woman in her late 30s with two kids, and also 22, unemployed and making the most of happy hour.
I bring this up because of what was on the table: a kokedama. If you’re unfamiliar, the word translates to “moss ball”. A decade ago, I saw them hanging outside the doorways of houses in deserted, snow-covered mountain villages in Japan, holding the tremulous fronds of overwintering ferns. The technique dates back centuries, a side-product of the art of bonsai that has become popular in its own right. Kokedama are a lot easier to create at home than bonsai trees: plants’ rootballs are removed from their pots and packed tightly with dense moss, before being bound with the string that can be used to hang them up with.
Continue reading...Dutch midfielder has rubbed shoulders with Messi, Neymar and Mbappé but is now making his own name
For Xavi Simons, it felt like a point of no return. He and his Tottenham teammates had nothing more to lose. The FA Cup tie at home to Aston Villa on 10 January was going badly. Played off the park by Unai Emery’s team, they were booed off by their own fans at half-time. They were losing 2-0.
Simons takes it personally when things are not going well and that had been the case, pretty much, since his £51.8m move from RB Leipzig last August. The 22-year-old knows his levels. These were not them.
Continue reading...Founding of diplomatic outposts in Nuuk comes after US made efforts to secure control of Arctic island
Canada and France are to open diplomatic consulates in the capital of Greenland on Friday, showing support for their Nato ally Denmark and the Arctic island after US efforts to secure control of the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
Canada’s foreign minister, Anita Anand, was travelling to Nuuk to inaugurate the consulate, which officials say also could help boost cooperation on issues such as the climate crisis and Inuit rights. She was joined by Canada’s Indigenous governor general, Mary Simon.
Continue reading...In Santa Clara, California, where nearly half of residents are born outside US, fear builds as game approaches
This weekend, tens of thousands of people will make their way to the Bay Area city of Santa Clara, ready to celebrate a weekend at the Super Bowl.
Beneath the jubilant mood, some residents and officials have been grappling with the possibility of ICE enforcement operations during the game, and taking steps to prepare.
Continue reading...Afterburn by Blake Morrison; Into the Hush by Arthur Sze; Unsafe by Karen McCarthy Woolf; Only Sing by John Berryman; Lamping Wild Rabbits by Simon Maddrell; Dream Latitudes by Alia Kobuszko
Afterburn by Blake Morrison (Chatto & Windus, £12.99)
Best known as a memoirist, Morrison returns to poetry after 11 years with a masterclass of lyric distillation and charged observation, demonstrating that nothing is beneath poetic deliberation. His subjects range from social and political justice to meditations on poetic heroes such as Elizabeth Bishop and sonnet sequences elegising the writer’s sister. The interwoven specificity and occasional nature of the poems is captivating: one feels their movement, “in the flesh, / in his memory / and in the words”, as they unspool with control and purpose. “I’m still capable of being in love.” This is a poet clearly still in love with life.
Into the Hush by Arthur Sze (Penguin, £12.99)
This first UK publication introduces readers to the current US poet laureate’s bold vision of the world’s fragility: one of unceasing iridescence and glimmer, even in the face of ecological destruction and dilapidation. While the title suggests a sonic organisation, it may be more apt to understand the poems as painterly brushstrokes. “When you’ve / worked this long your art is no longer art / but a wand that wakes your eyes to what is.” Single-line stanzas that decrescendo to em dashes recur, illustrating the silence into which Sze feels both world and body disappearing: “you have loved, hated, imagined, despaired, and the fugitive colours of existence have quickened in your body -”. Even in its continual replenishing beauty, the collection is eerie, as though these poems were a last attempt to bring order to the disorder of living. “What in this dawn is yours?” asks one. Perhaps nothing, because “once lines converge, lines diverge”.
At its new Stone Mountain, Georgia, facility, Roomba-like robots shuffle between stacks, another adds shipping labels while another arranges packages in pallets
One of the reasons Amazon is spending billions on robots? They don’t need bathroom breaks. Arriving a few minutes early to the public tour of Amazon’s hi-tech Stone Mountain, Georgia, warehouse, my request to visit the restroom was met with a resounding no from the security guard in the main lobby.
Between the main doors and the entrance security gate, I paced and paced after being told I would have to wait for the tour guide to collect me and other guests for a tour of the 640,000-sq-ft, four-story warehouse.
Continue reading...The master portraitist’s process is spelled out, Cardiff celebrates the great Gwen, Lynda Benglis eyes up Giacometti and Scottish art schools wind back the clock – all in your weekly dispatch
Lucian Freud: Drawing Into Painting
Dig deep into the vision of this great artist with an exhibition that follows his portrait process from paper to canvas.
• National Portrait Gallery, London, from 12 February to 4 May
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Huidige temperatuur (om 13:15): 6.3°C (Bewolkt)Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ↖ 123°
Luchtkwaliteit:
- AQI: 72 🟡 (Matig)
- PM2.5: 13.9 μg/m³
- PM10: 15.4 μg/m³
Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:
- vrijdag 06 februari: Min 1.7°, Max 8.1° (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 2.8, Kans op neerslag 44%, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ↖ 119°
- zaterdag 07 februari: Min 5.8°, Max 11.9° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 3%, Windsnelheid: 17.3 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 170°
- zondag 08 februari: Min 4.2°, Max 9.4° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 8%, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↖ 124°
- maandag 09 februari: Min 1.1°, Max 6.4° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 3%, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ← 109°
- dinsdag 10 februari: Min 0.4°, Max 7.3° (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.4, Kans op neerslag 15%, Windsnelheid: 10.6 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ← 81°
- woensdag 11 februari: Min 5.9°, Max 10.2° (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 6.9, Kans op neerslag 50%, Windsnelheid: 13.4 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ← 77°
- donderdag 12 februari: Min 2.0°, Max 6.8° (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1, Kans op neerslag 42%, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↙ 29°
Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:
- 14:00: 6.4° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 52%, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ↖ 116°
- 15:00: 6.3° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 74%, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ↖ 116°
- 16:00: 6.3° (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1, Kans op neerslag 88%, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ↖ 123°
- 17:00: 6.3° (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1, Kans op neerslag 86%, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↖ 129°
- 18:00: 6.6° (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3, Kans op neerslag 75%, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↖ 133°
- 19:00: 6.7° (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.7, Kans op neerslag 65%, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↖ 133°
- 20:00: 6.7° (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3, Kans op neerslag 57%, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↖ 137°
- 21:00: 6.9° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 49%, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↖ 151°
- 22:00: 7.6° (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1, Kans op neerslag 39%, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↑ 177°
- 23:00: 8.1° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 26%, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↑ 194°
- 00:00: 8.1° (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 12%, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 204°
- 01:00: 8.4° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 205°
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A series of unfortunate events in the Kuzbass highlights what analysts say is a deepening socio-economic crisis exacerbated by the war in Ukraine.
404Media is reporting that the FBI could not access a reporter’s iPhone because it had Lockdown Mode enabled:
The court record shows what devices and data the FBI was able to ultimately access, and which devices it could not, after raiding the home of the reporter, Hannah Natanson, in January as part of an investigation into leaks of classified information. It also provides rare insight into the apparent effectiveness of Lockdown Mode, or at least how effective it might be before the FBI may try other techniques to access the device.
“Because the iPhone was in Lockdown mode, CART could not extract that device,” the court record reads, referring to the FBI’s Computer Analysis Response Team, a unit focused on performing forensic analyses of seized devices. The document is written by the government, and is opposing the return of Natanson’s devices.
The FBI raided Natanson’s home as part of its investigation into government contractor Aurelio Perez-Lugones, who is charged with, among other things, retention of national defense information. The government believes Perez-Lugones was a source of Natanson’s, and provided her with various pieces of classified information. While executing a search warrant for his mobile phone, investigators reviewed Signal messages between Pere-Lugones and the reporter, the Department of Justice previously said.
MILAAN (ANP) - Suzanne Schulting is klaar om haar beste race ooit te rijden maandag op de 1000 meter in het Milano Speed Skating Stadium. De meervoudig olympisch kampioene shorttrack staat voor haar olympisch debuut op de langebaan. "Wat het dan waard is, gaan we zien", keek de 28-jarige schaatsster vooruit.
Schulting zag een grote wens uitkomen door op de Spelen van Milaan in actie te mogen komen op de langebaan. Ze komt later ook nog uit bij het shorttrack. "Dit is wat ik heel graag wilde en waarvan ik wist dat de kans heel klein was dat het ging lukken", zei ze na de training. "Ik vind het wel vet dat ik hier mag staan. Ik heb een kans, net als iedereen die aan de start staat."
Haar snelste 1000 meter (1.13,97) dateert al van 2020, maar haar kilometer van nu is volgens Schulting moeilijk te vergelijken met die rit. "Ik ben een snellere eerste ronde gaan rijden. Ik hoop dat het trainingsblok dat we hebben gehad er hier uitkomt voor die laatste ronde. Dan kan het interessant worden."